KILL IT OH MY GOD KILL IT NOW!

I think the worst thing is definitely the name.

You just know it’s going to secretly smother you in the night.

Or its gonna hump ya to death ! Creepy, creepy CREEPY !!

It’s like if they made a porno out of ‘A Boy and his Blob’.

LMAO @ Rob !!!

Ok to be fair I think that’s probably one of the most original robots I’ve ever seen but OMG what were they thinking. That is just so wrong in so many ways! Now I’m going to be having nightmares tonight, that I will wake up and find this thing trying to absorb me to grow even larger!

looks kinda like Gloop and or Gleep from that old hanna barbara cartoon.

Yes it is creepy but i can see where he was going. I work with children and from the eyes of a child a pillow who loves you is almost as good…or potentially as good, as a favored blankie. It really could help with children who suffer from night terrors.

i will kill myself the day pillows come to life omg freaky shit

Umm, you DO see that this is just a bunch of stills with some added image distortion to make it look like it’s moving, right?

This is AWESOME!! Love it!

maybe if they draw him a smile or something it wouldn’t be as weird as it is…or probably it would get worst

I call Shenanigans
Correct me if i am wrong but isn’t that just a weird looking normal pillow and not a robot at all, and they are just taking still pictures and using the warp tool on them to make them look like they move.
Its like showing a video of still images of a flying car model with the strings edited out and calling it an invention or a design.

It looks like Bud Bundy is no longer a lonely boy.

For me to think it is real, I need a real video, not stop motion. In any event, this is good for little kids maybe, but not for adults. It is a tad to creepy.

Is it just me or is that robot egging him on to…spoon harder?

ugh, my stomach hurts. This is on the wrong side of the uncanny valley. I think my face froze in this look of revolt, just like mom warned me.

oooOAOAAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!

Am i the only one who saw that this was simply a collection of stills with some VERY basic Photoshop distortion effects added? Seriously, you can see the dudes arm bending at sick angles st times. Maybe i missed the point, but at any rate, crappy PS skills, and a creepy damned pillow have wasted 3 minutes of my time.

Meh, wake me up when they engineer a Chairdog.

I’d kill myself before resorting to this thing.

All due creepiness aside, I’d love to get stoned with it…

Just a sick German would invent something perverted like this LOL

get a dog

Turned me on so much.

This thing looks like gloop and gleep… Those two protoplasmic creatures from The Herculoids…

This thing looks like gloop and gleep, the two protoplasmic creatures from The Herculoids…

@Durish what’s that supposed to mean?

thats a very good human robot copy i dont knw what you all are talking about.

Wow. We actually live in an age where conversations can be had about robotic pillows. Marvelous.

Bringing home a girl would be awkward. “Did.. did your pillow just grope me?”

To anyone who has ever had a bad breakup(im talking years of living together) or has had a husband or wife taken away from them. This just might be the thing to help get over the depression… Sleeping alone was the worst part for me, this might just help make the bed seem less empty…

I dunno. Creepiness aside, there might be a sex toy market here… >:3

Creepy as hell. I totally want one. Needs to be fuzzier, though, so it doesn’t look so much like a stupid… err… sex toy. Oh, and seriously, Photoshop sucks, as do the editor’s skills. Get a real program like GIMP, and you can actually make the warping look realistic with the click of a button.

THE BLOB!

I’d suggest you get a cat instead. They’ll sleep with you and play with you, and they’re unlikely to crawl across your face and smother you in the middle of the night. OTOH, glue a “Fleshlight” and a dildo onto that thing, and you’ve got yourself a serious sex toy…

The first time I watched it, the motion completely fooled me, though after reading the comments and watching a bit more closely, the warping technique is very prevalent. Still, it’s a cool idea. I wasn’t creeped out by it, it made me want one.

i think it’s real dude! i also think it’s cool

Is it me or does it look like a penis? That aside the basic motor simulating breathing is available in toy cats.

I don’t know. There’s that idea of something that is there to comfort you no matter what, only there for your needs, loves you unconditionally… I know a lot of people who want that. They have dogs, cats, whatever. False or not, I can see where it would be an accepted idea. We want robots even if we don’t admit it. We want robots who will work for us without question. We want robots who will tell us what we want to hear. We want robots who will breathe and comfort us. Think about it. False or not, this would so be accepted by humans because humans want humans to be that which they aren’t…robots.

it looks like a perverted slug!
OLOLOL
I wonder if it vibrates.

WHERE CAN I GET ONE?!?!?! =D

There’s no holes in it…

Give that table a hug man, it may not be moving, but it got feelings too…

Now the robot/cyborg/look-alikes comes in.
This little robot is actually very impressive, but the fact it doesn’t show expressions might make one a bit concerned. Not me.
I think of robots for what they do/feel/sense/etc and NOT how greatly they can mimic human expressions; THAT’s creepy. For f*** sake, it’s a ROBOT! Not as in Robocop, but as in eletronic circuits that do something defined by humans. I find the argument “[...] amorph object whose intention is to provide the user with a atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness” 110% valid.
It is just like a jello that “likes” cuddling, but doesn’t have a specific look.
I want one.

Can you have sex with it?

Honestly, this made me really sad. Is it a funny robot design? Yeah, it is – and i chuckled at the “sex toy” comments and “Blob” comments and whatnot… But! What does it represent? It represents the fact that our society is degenerating to the point that people are so alone and depressed that they would love to hug a pillow that hugged them back. So many people I know just hole themselves up in their houses – barely go out – barely have friends… these are truly bleak times :( the Funktionide is a strange idea to solve a very real problem.

Wake up everyone!! We need to start talking to each other again!!

I wounder if they could put a nipple on it!

Could you fuck it?

Autarkic is a word- it means self sufficient.

this is so fake!

You know that the next morning there’ll be two of those things looking for love!

Literally the grossest thing I’ve seen all month. My skin crawls.

That’s not going to stay pristine and white for long…

Soon it’ll be a gross hair-ball and spider-web covered grey/brown thing following you around!

@ Laura:

You’re right. I’m taking this bottle of wine downstairs right now to share it with the neighbor girl. Wait. No I’m not. Because I suck.

did u just touch my ass?

naw – that was the pillow..

So, what’s the difference between this, and some fat chick on Craigslist?

they def should have at least used a girl for the video

.) There are certainly a lot of details like that to take into consideration. That is a great point to bring up. I offer the thoughts above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like the one you bring up where the most important thing will be working in honest good faith. I don?t know if best practices have emerged around things like that, but I am sure that your job is clearly identified as a fair game. Both boys and girls feel the impact of just a moment’s pleasure, for the rest of their lives.

More people need to read this and understand this aspect of the story. I cant believe you’re not more popular.

I found your posting to be insightful! Thank you.